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.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

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.

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.