If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

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

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.