I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.
Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.
The older a woman gets, the more invisible you become.
I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.
Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.