People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.