I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.