When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never…

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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond...

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond...

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my...

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my...

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray...

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray...

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of...

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of...