She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'