Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do..

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall….

Isolation offered its own form of companionship.

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing te….

Sexy means loving someone you donot know..

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, th….

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being..

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see ….

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the m….

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'..

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch..

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, ….

Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she w….

We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to..

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace..

It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and ….

You remind me of everything that followed..

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion..

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed..

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bou….

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it..