I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.