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

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

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.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

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.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.