If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.