His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

It's good to be in love.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.