The time has to be right and the heart willing.

I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

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

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.