No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.