Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

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.

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

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.