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

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

If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Everybody believes in chance.

There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.