It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious whe….

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks..

Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some par….

People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention..

Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do..

I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They deman….

I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life ….