I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.

A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver.

I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings.

I used to be a bumper sticker kind of writer. Now I’m more developed, and my writing often takes up whole bumpers. 


Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

You Can't Change Your Life... Until You Change Your Heart, and You Can't Change Your Heart... Until You Change Your Mind!

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can’t see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack