Fiction Is Socially Meaningful.

That The World Was Silent And Cold And Bare And That In This Lay Its Terrible Beauty

Hemingway Said The Only Way To Write About A Place Is To Leave It.

Even Though I May Not Intend It When I Set Out To Write The Book, These Places Just Emerge As Major Players In What I'm Doing, Almost As If They Are Insisting On It.

I Think Of Myself As A Really Happy Person.

I Was Born In Washington State And Have Lived Here For 42 Plus Years.