Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

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

You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these obstacles is to write your way through them. And writing always works.

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.