In film, you have to present everything on the screen so it's the opposite of what I usually do with storytelling. It forced me to think about how pe….

I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred….

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after..

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel.….