The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.