There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.
Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.
You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.
Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.