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If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

I have broken a lot of stories.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.