Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad.

As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

Georgina, " He murmured, pulling me closer. "You are the world.

The only thing that I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Isn't it awkward how a lot of the people who tell others to 'stop being cheap, ' are usually the same ones that end up borrowing money from them?

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

Every day without exception - is a gift from God, entrusted to us to use for His glory.

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

A coder will be the next rock star.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.