If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

局外人

"Every story has an end, but in life every end is just a new beginning."

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love—and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

Science is not just about discovery, it's about responsibility.

The only thing that's really important is whether the work moves you or not.