I Think It Is Important

We Realized That The Version Of The World They Rendered For Us Was Not The Version Of The World They Really Believed In.

The Zipper Opened All The Way Down Our Spines.

There Comes A Moment, When You Get Lost In The Woods, When The Woods Begin To Feel Like Home.

I Have A Good Memory For Early Life. My Visual Memory Is Good About Childhood And Adolescence, And Less Good In The Last 10 Years. I Could Probably Tell You Less What Happened In The Last 10 Years. I Remember What Houses Looked Like, Sometimes They Just Pop Into My Head.

I Remember Liking To Write Stories Pretty Early On. In Fourth Or Fifth Grade, They Would Give Us The Beginning Of A Story, And We Were Supposed To Finish It. I Remember Liking That. But I Didn't Think About Deciding To Become A Writer Until High School At About The Age Of 16.