When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.

If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.