View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.