I Let My Characters Do The Talking,

I Love Writing In First Person More Than Third. I Have To Basically Suspend My Own World. I Don't Exist. I'm Just A Conduit. So I Can Be Eight Years Old. I Can Be The Mother Of A Kid That You Find Out Certain Things I'm Not Going To Say.

Don't Worry About How Pretty (the Story) Sounds, How Lilting It Is, And The Imagery, And The Metaphor, All That. Most Readers Don't Care. It's The People In Your Book That Matter.

I Take What People Feel And Think, Especially When It's Different From, Very Seriously, And I Find It Liberating.

We Never Thought Some Guy Would Deliberately Fill Our Hearts With Brown Sugar And Then Pour Hot Water All Over It.

You've Been Killing Me Inside And I Don't Want To Die Like This.