I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

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.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.

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