It's What You Do That Makes Your

Beginning A Novel Is Always Hard. It Feels Like Going Nowhere. I Always Have To Write At Least 100 Pages That Go Into The Trashcan Before It Finally Begins To Work. It's Discouraging, But Necessary To Write Those Pages. I Try To Consider Them Pages -100 To Zero Of The Novel.

A Certain Feeling Comes From Throwing Your Good Life Away, And It Is One Part Rapture.

Libraries Are The One American Institution You Shouldn't Rip Off.

Solitude Is A Human Presumption. Every Quiet Step Is Thunder To Beetle Life Underfoot, A Tug Of Impalpable Thread On The Web Pulling Mate To Mate And Predator To Prey, A Beginning Or An End. Every Choice Is A World Made New For The Chosen.

She Is Inhumanly Alone. And Then, All At Once, She Isn't.