She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

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.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

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

Learn to write by writing

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.