The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

You have a right to be you. It is a privilege for others to be around you.

I have met many sacred souls in reading.

God does not give money. He gives the power to get wealth.

I did not come this far to settle for less than I deserve.

Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.