I am everyone I have ever loved..

We've got a lot of love here, and for me that's what family is all about..

I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that'….

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time..

We are not always totally happy about how we are portrayed..

Fear is the biggest motivator..

What you see, isn't always what you get.

BBC had tried to develop the book, set in England, as a two-hour movie. I went to a meeting and they said, "Look at this," and I thought the book was….

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone..

I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that no one had ever read it or kn….

No one can be a true Muslim and a true American simultaneously..

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy..

As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned, but you almost benefit from it. The bum….

After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal..

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you..

Let no one who can be his own belong to another..

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great..

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men..

Celebrity is intoxicating..

I always say that you define what success is to yourself..

As Americans, we do love punishment..