 Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. |
| I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. |
| Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. |
| Short things are short all over and long things are long all over. |
| The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. |
| Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. |
| I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself. |
| So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money. |
| Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. |
| I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. |
| Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. |
| The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. |
| I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. |
| I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. |
| I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. |
| I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. |
| I can write anywhere. |
