“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”

“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”

“My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.”

“I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.”

“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”

“There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.”