My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe