When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.