“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

“I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England l...”

“On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.”

“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”