I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
The greatest griefs are silent.
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 won't read novels while writing novels.