It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids..

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising..

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with….

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes..

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed..

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution..

Say something worth the words..

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when ….

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment..

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired..

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are..

That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start lo….

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily..

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we d….

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles..

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more import….

I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked d….

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life..

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back..

You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned..