Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone and what you still need to work on

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.