I Think Of Nashville As A Very

I Am The Person Who Is Appropriating Stories That Are Not Mine And Turning Them Into A Book.

Love Was Action. It Came To You. It Was Not A Choice.

Our Friendship Was Like Our Writing In Some Ways. It Was The Only Thing That Was Interesting About Our Otherwise Dull Lives. We Were Better Off When We Were Together. Together We Were A Small Society Of Ambition And High Ideals. We Were Tender And Patient And Kind. We Were Not Like The World At All.

I Was Very Influenced By The Magic Mountain. It's A Book That Had A Huge Impact On Me. I Loved That As A Shape For A Novel: Put A Bunch Of People In A Beautiful Place, Give Them All Tuberculosis, Make Them All Stay In A Fur Sleeping Bag For Several Years And See What Happens.

Sometimes Not Having Any Idea Where We’re Going Works Out Better Than We Could Possibly Have Imagined.