You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched him walk through the hills and come back in the evening when his work was through. I saw things no woman would see: that he knew how to cry, that he was alone. I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful and he wanted me. He broke me off and took me with him, in his hands, and I didn't care that I was dying until I actually was.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist