Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.