When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

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

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

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 like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

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.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.