A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing.

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

Give away all your love and become the love, and love never dies.

-. Every destiny comes with a destiny activator or proof producer. Someone God will use to bring out he best in you

It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.

She was thinking of doing a little Cuervo therapy.

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.