A dream without a plan is just a wish
Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?
Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.