There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Ann Patchett

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

I will write my way into another life.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.

If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What's the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?