Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life, ’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.