A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of the role and not enough of the work. We are such a celebrity-driven age and a status-driven age, that the status becomes more important than the actual work.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignities and hardships.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.