I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.