That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, "I'm glad you're reading this book" or "I'm glad you're getting this book" or "Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead."

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.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

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

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