I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.
I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.
My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
Who are you and why are you here?' 'I'm here to kill you.' 'Oh. I knew there was something about you I liked.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.
Only in drama does it end with the tragedy; in life it grinds on. Moanday, tearsday, happy days, right through to Shatterdays. And Again.
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
