Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

Connecticut is in my blood.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.