If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

The cross is suffering with Christ.

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

You work hard for what you want in life.

Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.