I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
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.