Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

may flowers smell their scent!

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.