I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.