I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

We have to fight them daily like fleas those many small worries about the morrow for they sap our energies.

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

If you can educate girls, you can change the world.

But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

We stand separate from the world because of our gifts. Never forget that, because you may be sure the world never will.