You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.