The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum."

The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.