See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.