Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Write. Don't think. Relax.