Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Love is in heart, not in our brains...

Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.

An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

All's well if all ends well.