I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.
One does not know where love will take you.
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.