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-….

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the ….

You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It's….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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..

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..

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..