If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.