I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.

See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.

call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.