That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as fri….

Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and al….

I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind..

The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your….

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting..

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day..

I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then….