Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.