Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.