Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing