The truth is in the present moment.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

You can start your day over anytime.

There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art