A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.