The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.