Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember..

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read..

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water..

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness..

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to….

Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trou….

I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to th….

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins..

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes y….

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you..

If it's important, your heart remembers..

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past.

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world t….

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them..

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time..

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words..

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder..

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons o….

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written..

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do..

It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit ….