Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.