I'm my characters' galley slave.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

Let your love for books grow, as your confidence grows too.

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

My memories are like a shuffled deck of cards, each one coming up at random.

...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

What we are not changing, we are choosing.

Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

Erdogan wants an old-fashioned Islam, if you will, for lack of a better term.