I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.