Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

the only thing left to do is love

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.