The truth needs so little rehearsal.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.