I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.