I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

Be yourself... And shoot for the stars. Obviously dreams really do come true.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.