I've always been a magnet for guilt.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

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

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

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.