You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

If nightmares can come true, and sometimes they do... then so can our happiest dreams.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

The chase of gain is rich in hate

When in doubt, ATTACK!

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.