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Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

Fiction is socially meaningful.

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

[H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.

my religion is home and all that attends it.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.

Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

Everybody knows what God is,' said his mother. 'You feel what God is, don't you?

Today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest.

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth.

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

There were guys who prayed at Tarawa,' said Ishmael. 'They still got killed, Mother. Just like the guys who didn't pray. It didn't matter either way.

The rain fell with such fervor that the world disappeared.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

A literary achievement of the highest order.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.

Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Tell the truth,' Nels said. 'Decide to tell the truth before it's too late.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion - and a horrifying one.