The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.