I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

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 always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

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

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.