Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.