I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."