Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

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

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. 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.

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