It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

Price. You're priceless.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

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

She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you