I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.