It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

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

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.