I Love This Idea Of The Body

When You Are Expending Much Energy On Someone Else's Demise, It's Like You Weaken Your Psychic Immune System.

A Logic Proof Is: You Get A Starting Point And An Ending Point, And You Have To Get There Through All These Different Steps And Tautologies. I Approach Novel Writing That Way. When I Get To The End I Have To Go Back And Connect Everything.

Our Cover Has Always Been Really Important. For Those Of You Who Haven’t Seen Itcharles Burns, Who Is A Graphic Artist, Does Four Portraits, So It’s Split Into Quadrants And There’s Four Heads, Basically—portraits Of People. We’ve Actually Often Thought And Freaked Out, What If Something Happened To Charles Burns? Because He’s So Identified With The Cover Of Our Magazine, I Don’t Know What We Would Do If Anything Happened To Charles Burns.

When My Husband First Read A Draft, He Said, "you Spend Too Much Time Describing The Characters' Outfits." He Was Right. I Removed Much Of The Clothes Talk, But Quite A Bit Remained.

It's Fascinating To Imagine Two Successful Writers In One House. But When You Think About It, It Isn't Very Unusual. In Fact, So Many Writers Have Writer Spouses.