“I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing....” — Antonya Nelson Quote

“I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.”

“I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.”

“It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.”

“We need to get around a table, have a serious discussion about the holistic problems in our immigration system, and craft a common-sense solution.”

“I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.”