If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.
I learned to love stories by listening to them.
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.
I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.
Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.
Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.