Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas...

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.