Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.