Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.