I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.