One must not be shy where language is concerned.

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

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.

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

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

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

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