I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

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.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

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

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.