I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

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

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.