A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.