Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

It’s like we have the bones of animals and the hearts of angels.

She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn!

Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues.

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.