Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

- Laura Miller

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

- Laura Miller

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly…

- Laura Miller

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

- Laura Miller

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

- Laura Miller

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

- Laura Miller

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

- Laura Miller

Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but th…

- Laura Miller

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

- Laura Miller