The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.
We're all entitled to our superstitions.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.