A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on. I pour a cup of coffee, listen to Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, and then I write.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.