It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

I hate to cook and love to eat.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.

I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.