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

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

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

Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't.

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

We are tyrannized by our options.