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Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

Mind what you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved. As

Elizabeth Spencer.

He pictured her living alone in that tranquil house with its fine old furnishings, tending her flowers and fruit trees.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about ... the world I live in.

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

Rage cools fast without an accessible target.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops.

She loved the dogs as you're supposed to love dogs: consistently

People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.

Ready how? Who's ever ready for anything important?

We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree.

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.

To love me, my family does not need to understand me.

Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

You have not truly met someone until you have looked him or her in the eye as a soul with a place in your future.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

We're all alive the day before we die.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

I'd suffocate. From my own cowardice.

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.

Always more to learn, that's the pain and the pleasure

The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.

All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world.

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

Ever noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies?
-I See You Everywhere

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

Sometimes I have this feeling," Walter said, "that he operates on the philosophy that 'what Walter doesn't know won't hurt him.

Do you think too long a period of nightlessness," mused Sandra, "could drive you insane, the way they say sleeplessness can?

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.