When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.