“All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.”

“A writer is supposed to have anonymity.”

“I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.”

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.”