There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.While the media elite declare what to think, I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Women are wired to do more and different things because of their lack of ego

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego.

Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.