Gay rights is not something most of us think about – because most of us happen to have been born straight.
In books, you always know what’s coming next. There are no surprises.
Is it really worth dying for the person you love?
When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn’t yet been slammed in your face.
You can’t win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don’t have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever.
In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don’t know the answers to, because that’s what’s more interesting for me to write.
My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.
People are always afraid of the unknown – and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.
I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.
The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.
There’s that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.
It’s certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.
I think there are readers out there and I don’t think the book is dead. And more importantly I don’t think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
I don’t have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It’s about really putting yourself in their shoes.
Writer’s block is for people who have the luxury of time.