The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.

We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

She has the gift of accepting her life.