Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions..

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature..

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that..

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... ….

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere..

If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! I….

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger….

There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you ….

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog..

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write..

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get ….

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen..

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing..

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around….

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know ….

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to..

You should not have assault rifles in your home..

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame.

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader an….

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time..

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?.