If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

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

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

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