There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.

A star earns the right to shine the day it is born.

A writer is a thought smith

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.