A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.