You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

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.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.