If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

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.

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.