Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.