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.

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

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

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

Everyone knows everything eventually.