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

Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.

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

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

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

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.