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

The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.