What business does memory have with time?

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.

All we have is the story we tell.

It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.

I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.