The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.

While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!

We have come too far to go back, my friends.

Love yourself for who you are. You are beautiful inside and out, and nobody can take that away from you.

I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.