Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 28, 1969
You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground..
You can ruin anything if you focus at it..
Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all s….
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope..
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, an….
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot..
Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of wo….
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist..
It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things..
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language..
But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did s….
I want to be violated by insight..
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would….