You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.