If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

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.

Be determined to fulfill your dreams.

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

Aren’t there different electrical outlets here? And what about money? And isn’t it-” “Relax, Tess, ” Taylor told me. “I have everything covered.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.