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.

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

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

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.

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.