Let's agree then . . . if you're about to come to a conclusion, you'll head off in another direction. You might even find your own voice..

The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say..

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read..

The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts.

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin..

I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on sus….

I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' B….

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!.

All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too..

Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I….

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be….

I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my….

There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see..

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could..

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers..

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart..

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own..

People are freer in America. But there are more tears..