Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.
If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best. . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.
I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.
Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!