I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.