I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.