Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.