Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
“I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.”
“Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.”