Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.

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.

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

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.