Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.