What we fear we often rage against.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

I love her. I love her. I love her. I love her. And this time, I will never let her go.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

We need to make this a reality this year or I strongly suspect it will not happen.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.

All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.