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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
Writing is like digging for treasure—you never know what you'll find until you start.
"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child."
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is nothing at all.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
"The truth is not what you remember, but what you can no longer forget."
"History is not what happened but what survives the shipwreck."
The stories we tell ourselves shape who we become.
You can't change what you are, only what you do.
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
To make love with a stranger is the best. There is nothing more exciting.
"The most dangerous thing is to assume you know what you're doing."
We are all searching for something, but we don't know what it is.
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.
"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."
"A book is a mirror: if a fool looks in, no sage can look out."
"Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water."