Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

Learn to write by writing

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

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

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

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.