Love Only Brought Me Lonliness And Horror.

I Always Wanted To Write A Book About La, A Big Ambitious Book. Nobody Had Ever Really Done It With La- Treating The City Seriously As A Major Economic And Cultural Power, As The Embodiment Of 21st Century America.

I Listen To The Tick Of An Unseen Clock Marking Moments Of Time Long Passed.

I Felt Like I Had Lost Something. But Not Something Silly, Like My Keys Or My Gum; More Like My Arm Or My Foot, Something That Really Mattered. Like Something That I Could Live Without, But Would Make Life Much Harder If It Were Missing. And Life Is Hard Enough. Life Is Hard Enough With Everything We're Given.

When I Started Writing 'a Million Little Pieces,' I Felt Like It Was The Right Story With The Style I Had Been Looking For, And I Just Kept Going.

Being An Unpublished Novelist Has About As Much Social Acceptability As Being A Shopping Bag Lady.