I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.

We haven't slept together. But we've napped

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film.

I never listen to music when I write.

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.