Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I won't read novels while writing novels.

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.