Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.