I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!