My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.
Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.
I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.
A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
