The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.