I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

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

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

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

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