I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

I am definitively qualitative about work.

I am a drinker with writing problems.