Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

The best revenge is living well without you.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.