The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

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.

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

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.