If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
I love the most the students with troubled lives.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.