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

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

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

How plotless real life was!

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

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