1. “The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.”
2. “The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other people’s eyes.”
3. “Revenge only endangers violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.”
4. “For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don’t need a room of your own, you nee a house.”
5. “I think people should read fairy tales, because we’re hungry for a mythology hat will speak to our fears.”
6. “Writing is like sewing together what I call these ‘buttons’, these bits and pieces.”
7. “Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.”
8. “I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.”
9. “I felt a failure because I couldn’t sustain myself from what I earned from my writing.”
10. “I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalogue.”
11. “I have to understand what y strengths and limitations are and work from a true place.”
12. “You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.”
13. “There’s no perfect place, there’s no wonderful utopia.”
14. “You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it .”
15. “I’m afraid I’m still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me.”
