I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

To be next to her was to have everything.