Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

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

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

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Fiction is always really a labor.

If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.