I'm very comfortable writing.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.