I am interested in silences

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.