They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.