I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.