Occupation: Writer Birth: March 25, 1964
Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all..
Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of li….
A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is..
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children..
All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess..
I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test..
All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all..
I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy….
When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn in….
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She….
[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli….
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and….
Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate cleanser - between larger works. It's always a relie….
We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For….
I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me..
The draft that finally goes to my editor doesn't get into her hands until I have read it out loud innumerable times - sometimes into a tape recorder ….
We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad d….
If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to und….
Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others..
I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully ….
There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt..