The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry. They are not supposed to feed themselves or care about their own food. They're definitely not supposed to take food out of a child's mouth.

It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

I invented the historical spy novel.

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig's blood.

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

Power always brings with it responsibility.