It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has been spying inside my house, All Joy is a must-read for those of us whose lives have been enriched and derailed by having kids.

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.