When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
The time has to be right and the heart willing.
our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
Every letter was a love letter.
Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.
There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.