Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.