My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

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 will write my way into another life.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

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.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.