The time has to be right and the heart willing.

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

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

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.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.