If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.

I think there's no question that there's a reason why small children make great art and why slightly bigger children don't. And it's because small children don't worry about what anybody else thinks and slightly bigger children start to worry about these things.

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.