I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.