Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

Ka works and the world moves on.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.