I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

He traveled in order to come home.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.