That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.