Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

Last night the nightingale sat by my window and sang her joyous song of love...Though I loved it, my heart silently missed the beautiful song of your heart beat!

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

I think a lot of people are aware of the things I do, but maybe because of who I am, they don't want to report the good things about Albert Belle.

The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.

I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.

When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

We need one strong hombre or hombre-ette, and I'm the hombre-ette to go and stand for you in Washington DC.

Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.