Don't waste your time on life.

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

Don't waste your time on life.