Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

I admire your capacity for admiring.

I hate that word dysfunction.