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

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

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.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

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

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