There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

God is the nest we build together.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.