Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

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

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

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 starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

Try to be accurate about stuff.