If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

I'm very comfortable writing.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.