Connecticut is in my blood.

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.