Life Was An Impenetrable Mystery Cloaked In

It Was Hard To Reassure Grown-ups When You Weren't Certain Yourself What You Were Feeling And Thinking—when Thoughts Dissolved Before You Could Name Them.

I Don't Know What Makes A Writer's Voice. It's Dozens Of Things. There Are People Who Write Who Don't Have It. They're Tone-deaf, Even Though They're Very Fluent. It's An Ability, Like Anything Else, Being A Doctor Or A Veterinarian, Or A Musician.

There's A Certain Amount Of Tyranny In All Of Us To Some Extent, And In Some People It's Much More Developed Than In Others. It's A Different Balance Which Makes Us All Different.

Literature Is The Province Of Imagination, And Stories, In Whatever Guise, Are Meditations On Life.

A Good Novel Begins With A Small Question And Ends With A Bigger One.