There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.