“Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live…” — Charles Bock

When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.

I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as possible so I could hoard time to write.

My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.