You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.