“I write to see the world. I do not quite know what I see, and I certainly don’t know what I think, until I’ve written it. So when I look out at the world, I find myself wanting to trace its contours with words. I write because, when I look out at the world... I want to write it. When I look out at the world, I want to help it; and somehow, I feel as though by writing, I just might.”
