Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

That's important to me, to recommend books.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.