Don't love anything that can be taken away.

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world