Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

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.

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

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

I am a totally public person.