I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

My artistic approach is that you're supposed to be a little baffled.

So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me.

As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are really acoustic writers and so for them the secret revision is sound. Other people may revise in terms of the way a paragraph feels. There's a million ways to do it.

She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.