All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?