I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.