The Desire To Write A Novel Is

If To Live Is To Progress, If You Are Lucky, From Foolishness To Wisdom, Then To Write Novels Is To Broadcast The Various Stages Of Your Foolishness.

When I Came Home For The Summer After My First Year Of College, I Told My Mother That My Best Friend And I Were Driving To California. She Laughed Out Loud - 2,000 Miles In A What? Well, My Best Friend Had An Old Chevy. What Could Go Wrong?

The Only Siblings I Have Are Half-siblings. My Nuclear Family Would Have Been An Extra-suffocating Threesome. Instead, I Have An Interesting Brother And Sister, In-laws, And Darling Nephews.

Charles Dickens Was An Avid Seeker Of Names - He Read Directories And Looked For Odd Names On Gravestones.

The Fact Is That The Same Sequence Of Days Can Arrange Themselves Into A Number Of Different Stories.