Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.