I Don't Want To Stand

Home, Bed, Sleep, Mother--who Knew More Beautiful Words Than These?

I Think Of Nashville As A Very Natural Place. We're Easy Going, We Are Ourselves. There Isn't A Lot Of Preening Or Trying To Impress. So It's An Easy Place To Just Be And That Is A Good State From Which To Write.

I Craft Everything In The Beginning. I Know Where The Characters Are Going Before I Start Writing The Book.

Part Of It Is Living In Tennessee. I'm So Out Of The Loop. And As A Person, I'm Out Of The Loop. I'm Oblivious By Nature.

Fiction Is Always Really A Labor.