From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!
What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social media. At the same time, if no one ever read my work, if I was writing solely for myself, I bet it would be lonely and a lot less fun.
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat. , Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit. ]
My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe. . . It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.
For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.