Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

I don't like to generalize, but if you see a guy with his shirt tucked into his shorts, he's probably killed three or four children.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die!

It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.