I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.