Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected. Votes: 3
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. Votes: 0
I am a totally public person. Votes: 0
Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. Votes: 0
I'm very comfortable writing. Votes: 0
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world. Votes: 0
Fiction is always really a labor. Votes: 0
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. Votes: 0
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. Votes: 0
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. Votes: 0
You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. Votes: 0
It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it. Votes: 0
shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us Votes: 0
I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun. Votes: 0
You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature. Votes: 0
If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write. Votes: 0
Learn to write by writing Votes: 0
Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano. Votes: 0
It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper. Votes: 0
The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months. Votes: 0
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Votes: 0
There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do. Votes: 0
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong. Votes: 0
Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life. Votes: 0
I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book. Votes: 0
Everybody believes in chance. Votes: 0