For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.