“The thing I try to do is to get to the place where I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
“I think it’s the idea of telling a story that interests me more than any one individual story.”
“You can’t be too careful anymore, especially when you’re trying to be honest.”
“I believe the people we care about and the people we don’t know are the same in their lives and deaths.”
“Writing is a way of finding out what I think.”
“The stories I write are just one view of a situation. There are many.”
“There’s always more to someone than you can see.”
“Writing is a form of thinking. That’s how you get to your understanding.”
“You’re not always the best judge of your own writing, because you’re so close to it.”
“The best writing comes from your own experience, or what you observe, or what you imagine.”
“There are always things that are unknown in life, that are left unexplained.”
“I write about people who are in the middle of their lives, who feel they’re stuck or trapped.”
“The greatest thing that can happen to a writer is to write a story that surprises them.”
“Writing is a very private thing, and yet it’s a way of connecting.”
“I think we all want a simple explanation, but there’s no such thing.”
“I don’t know why we need to know everything about people. It’s the unknown part of them that makes them interesting.”
“We’re always trying to make sense of the world, but sometimes the world doesn’t make sense.”
“I’m interested in ordinary people, not extraordinary people.”
“I believe that the more you understand about the world, the more you are affected by the world.”
“Life is unpredictable, and that is what makes it so interesting.”
“I write the way I do because I don’t want to come to any conclusions.”
“In writing, I think it’s important to let your characters be as they are and not to manipulate them.”
“The best stories are the ones that feel like they’re unfinished, like they could go on forever.”
“I like stories that offer no simple solutions or easy answers.”
“The writing process is really about making a discovery, rather than making something up.”
“I like the idea of not understanding everything about a person, and letting the story remain mysterious.”
“You never know what will move you or stir you; it’s often something unexpected.”
“There are moments in life when you realize you’re the only one who understands what’s going on.”
“The power of the moment is in the realization of it—when you realize how important something is, how it changes you.”
“Writing is a process of trying to get closer to what you don’t understand.”
“You never know how much of your own life is in your work until someone points it out to you.”
“Stories often come to you when you stop trying to force them.”
“I don’t like to have endings that tie things up neatly. Life doesn’t do that.”
“Sometimes a story becomes much more complicated when you look at it from a different angle.”
“Writers often find themselves in places where they’re alone with their thoughts.”
“Life is messy, and the way we deal with it is messy.”
“I think all writing is a kind of exploration, both of the writer’s mind and of the world.”
“You can’t just look at things from one perspective; you have to be able to see from multiple angles.”
“The best stories are the ones where you don’t know what’s going to happen next.”
“My characters tend to be caught in situations that they can’t control, which is what makes them interesting.”
“It’s not about what you write; it’s about how you write it.”
“I think the important thing in a story is to keep things open-ended and leave space for the reader’s imagination.”
“Sometimes, the best stories are about people who feel like they don’t belong anywhere.”
“It’s amazing how much we try to understand about the world, but the more we try, the more it seems to resist explanation.”
“I’m interested in how people’s emotions evolve in the face of unexpected events.”
“We’re always trying to make sense of our own lives, and sometimes we never do.”
“The best stories are about people who don’t know exactly what they want, but are searching for it.”
“You don’t need to know everything about your character; sometimes the mystery is what makes them interesting.”
“The best writing is about finding the truth, even when that truth is uncomfortable.”
“There’s always something new to discover about the world, even when you think you’ve seen it all.”