“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

“Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.”

“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.”

“You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.”

“Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.”

“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”