I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways ….

Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking..

I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murde….

We all make terrible mistakes in our lives..

I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy - unli….

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself..

I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live….

I can’t think of a more philosophical time in a person’s life than when they are children. It’s the one time when ideas are really beautiful and ama….

Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my en….

Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels a….

The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something lustrous abou….

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel..

For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapid….