I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.