Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.

There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.

Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.