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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on the footstool.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Hydrox cookies (what happened to them? They used to be so good. Sugar. No doubt they're leaving out sugar)

The real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

People forget years and remember moments.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ...

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock.

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead.