Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it? - Gabrielle Zevin

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.

Every book is a world.