I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.