Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

Modern morality is all about perception.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.