Darin Strauss

“Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.”

“In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene.”

“You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'”

“The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.”

“Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.”