I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.