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

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

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.

I won't read novels while writing novels.

I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.