There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be re….

I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for me out of their own hair, and one of ….

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method..

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future..

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any….

You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could….

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you fi….

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch..

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you..

Nobody tells her to shut up. It would be pointless. Amy has a large heart and an even larger mouth. When it rains, Amy rescues worms off the sidewalk….

There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at firs….

Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet..

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends..

You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have….

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird..

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place..

So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vamp….

Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's usefu….

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long..

In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be ….

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be ….