Occupation: Editor Birth: July 19, 1969
Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina..
Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet..
I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment..
So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vamp….
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….
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….
Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends..
You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place..
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..
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….
Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird..
When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long..
I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music wheneve….
What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-….
We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon….
Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you..
Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction..
As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off….
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….
The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree..
I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing nove….