So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

traveling is the great true love of my life

You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.