I will write my way into another life.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.