You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories..

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself..

Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoe….

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams..

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them..

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest..

A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely….

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather..

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive..

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction..

Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strange….

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle..

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave..

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become….

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures..

Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, th….

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify..

Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books….

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that….

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it..

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials..