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.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.

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

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.