Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.