... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.

Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.

It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.

(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

No girl can forget the day she lost her virginity, or the circumstance that led to it

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.

Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.