I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

We don't choose what's going to wake us up.

As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?