I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
I never change, I simply become more myself.
Novels usually evolve out of 'character. ' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.