Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

Little children are all writers.