When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.
There is no end to what can be said about the world.
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.