I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

bitter is a bad way to live!

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

I’ll get you and your little dog too?’ You say your girl can’t pay me back? Believe me when I say that that little gift’s just gonna keep right on giving.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

Children are unaccountable little creatures.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.