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'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo... →
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful... →
As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't... →
I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight, color, and socially approved... →
I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no... →