“I don’t know how “I could get ideas … if I had the distraction of people in the house.”
“Gowdy’s peripatetic career path echoes Louise’s stumbling attempts to find a fulfilling job in The Romantic.”
“When people say reviews and prizes don’t matter, they are wrong.’”
“I always finish a book thinking, ‘That’s it. It’s over. I’m finished. I’m washed up. I have no ideas.’”
“Offering Gowdy gratuitous reassurance is like telling a woman who has already had five healthy babies not to worry during her sixth pregnancy.”