I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.

She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.