“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”

“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“I just finished reading Pearl Cleage 'What looks like Crazy on an ordinary day' and Ernessa T. Carter '32 Candles'; they were both fantastic. I had almost giving up hope of finding anything I'd like to read. They contained relatable topics and wrote in vernacular that made me feel at ease with the whole process. I think I'm rediscovering my love of books from these two amazing authors.”

“Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books”

“If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?”