Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.