reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.