What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.