The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward….

I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will ….

He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them..

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry..

nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be..

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question ove….

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I di….

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard..

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else..

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it..

I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me..

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth.

There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And ….

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good..

I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other d….

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless..

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interestin….

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak..

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ….

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing..

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me..