I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
