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….

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-….

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….

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..

Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what s….

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl..

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….

You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting..

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction..

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..

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes..

I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder to judge the ones….

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or no….

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..

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves..

No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fenc….

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….

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do ….

You should never poison a witch..

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 ….

Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows..