In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I'….

It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recogniz….

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably be….

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how ….

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets..

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I ….

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner..

I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness..

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart an….

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vamp….

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror..

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or….

Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you..

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted..

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I h….

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood..

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained refere….

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job..

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction..

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business ve….