Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of gray—and shades of gray are also a part of life.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

Time heals all wounds.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.