Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying.

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.