I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.