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.

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

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

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

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.