Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.