You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.