If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
“Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.”
“I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.”