I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.