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

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

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

She has the gift of accepting her life.