"The best books are the ones that make you feel less alone."

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

"Sometimes, the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.