Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.

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

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.