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.

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.

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 a summer person.

it doesnt matter how slow you go, as long as you dont stop

Comment pouvaient-ils accepter que l'histoire de leur vie s'efface sous le souffle d'une bombe? Alors, sur la page blanche du jardin, ils tentaient de la réécrire avec le seul alphabet dont ils disposaient. Ces meubles et ces bibelots formaient des mots qu'ils avaient agglutinés en phrases selon une syntaxe de la mémoire qui racontait l'histoire de leur vie.