Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

People who think my books are autobiographical which they're not credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do however have a powerful imagination.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

I write from my imagination not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery they might not like that book quite as much.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.