Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.