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

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.

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.

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

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

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

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.