The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.

Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.