"Readers kept saying, ‘Is Rainey going to get her own book?’ But I was busy trying to..."

“Readers kept saying, ‘Is Rainey going to get her own book?’ But I was busy trying to write a novel set in 1902. I spent four years in 1902 before Rainey burst through, stopped that project, and got her own book. There’s a moral to this. Write what’s in your heart, not what’s in your head. Write from the basement, not from the living room. Write from the places that make you afraid.”

- Dylan Landis, interviewed by Jessica Anya Blau for The Rumpus