It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.