A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

We only have what we give.