I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

When leaves begin to sprout, we know spring season is here.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

We can't rewind the past, nor fast-forward the future, so today, all we can do is play, record, pause and keep moving, until something should press the stop button.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

I am ridiculously old-fashioned.

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.