” I’m an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life. “
” Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next? “
” There’s a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. “
” I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day, it’s amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky. “
” A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That’s what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself. “
” I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day. “
” Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility. “
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