It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.