It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

I learned to write by writing.

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.