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My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the... →
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world... →
You can't run from your roots.
If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.
Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I... →
I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
I've always been a big reader.
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.