Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.

When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.

Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.

I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.

Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.

You do not have to be religious to be spiritual and moral.

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

Love ... is a living reality.

Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.