I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.
I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.
I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.
Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.
I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.
I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous.