You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

Every year I tell myself that I’m not going to read any reviews and then I do. We’re all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it’s part of the game, you’re going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that’s how it goes. I don’t write for the reviews.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

It's choice that makes us human.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.