She has the gift of accepting her life.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

Do what I will never do.

You remind me of everything that followed.

Sexy means loving someone you donot know.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.