I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

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.

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.