If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

I agree with the Lev Tolstoy quote completely, but I also feel like there's more to it. What is a happy family and an unhappy family? We're probably both of those things at the same time.

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don't seem to live in the moment. And I said, "Exactly!" I'd go nuts if I lived in the moment.

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

I've spent so many years living in one place and imaging another.

The day you were born the angels whispered, "She is going to love him until the day she dies.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

I support renewable energy.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

It's nice when you can tell stories that brush up against the world we live in.

I feel cheesy when I see Silver Spoons. Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.

What do you think, Ronnie? Do you think we could stop after just one kiss?

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.