I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

God, life changes faster than you think.