I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

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

Everybody believes in chance.

I will write my way into another life.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.