It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.
A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.
Boredom is why God invented books.
Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?
My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.
I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.
I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.