I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.