I am a summer person.

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

I am not a morning person.