It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.

It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.