The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

If that's the example you want set, you be the example.

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.

True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not.

Stories are invented as you go along...

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.