A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know w….

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right….

Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were born with a compl….

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad..

A novel is a tricky thing to map..

I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have ….

Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversatio….

I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absor….

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another….

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the….

I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think o….

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to….