Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore" and "Kids! Come here, come here! This is the woman who owns the bookstore." That's incredible. I can say to that, "Thank you for shopping local. Thank you for coming in. What are you reading? Let's talk about books." It's about something I'm doing as opposed to somehow something I am. I feel comfortable and positive in that role. Because it's about reading. It's about books. It's about learning. It's about business and tax base.