That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.