It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

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.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Our life is not of this world.

As she climbed a ladder and started boarding up the smashed front windows, Helen realized that some things stay a little bit broken forever—even after they’ve been fixed.

All history is a lie!

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.