I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight..

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering..

That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, "I'm glad you're reading this b….

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong..

There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to pr….

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never un….

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how..

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed u….

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do….

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them..

One must not be shy where language is concerned..

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are….

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. Yo….

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people..

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, giv….

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people..

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something..

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are..

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important..

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running nec….

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, b….