Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.