If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.