If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Art is communication.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.