Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.