It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.