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

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

Empowering women means trusting them.

The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.