I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

God loves you and created you in His own image.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.