Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

It was a very emotional time.

Men are portrayed as buffoons these days and I was trying not to do that, but men are the ultimate mystery to me.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.