I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.