I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

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

I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.