A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be….

I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean I think the first draft is art, an….

I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't want to exhaust what it is yo….

I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the paper, you make a couple of phone calls, and ….

Women want a family life that glitters and is stable. They don't want some lump spouse watching ice hockey in the late hours of his eighteenth beer. ….

I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to change the world, alt….

I'm absolutely not an athletic person, but I used to be married to a runner. He would say that, especially in long-distance races, you could tell who….

I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then, for me, for one reason or another, it usuall….

Reality is when you pay the rent. Get caught in traffic or your car breaks down. Really it's an AM/FM sort of thing. You've got reality and then ther….

It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal.….

I play the same album over and over until the people in my house are ready to kill me..

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version..