My Life Is A Reading List.

I Always Begin With A Character Or Characters, And Then Try To Think Up As Much Action For Them As Possible.

Kids Are Perfect People Till Grownups Get Their Hands On Them.

To Each Other, We Were As Normal And Nice As The Smell Of Bread. We Were Just A Family. In A Family Even Exaggerations Make Perfect Sense.

A Writer's Job Is To Imagine Everything So Personally That The Fiction Is As Vivid As Memories.

We Don't Always Have A Choice How We Get To Know One Another. Sometimes, People Fall Into Our Lives Cleanly--as If Out Of The Sky, Or As If There Were A Direct Flight From Heaven To Earth--the Same Sudden Way We Lose People, Who Once Seemed They Would Always Be Part Of Our Lives