You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.

The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.

What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.

If you ever were bullied, you always remember that feeling.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.