Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.

We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too wet' or 'The first couple chapters are good, but then the rest of the pages were so wet that they were completely illegible' or 'Did you dip this in Sprite? This smells like Sprite. Why would you dip your novel in Sprite?' And instead of pushing back, I'd listen. That's an incredibly important skill for a young writer to have.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.