Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.