If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.