I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

The older you get the more you live in the past

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.