Every moment offers a great opportunity to write.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

Replace your old books with the books you’ve always wanted to write.

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.

Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn’t build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

I’ve loved him since I’ve known him, Mrs. Daniels. He just finally stopped fighting.

You should always control the strengths you have available to you, never let them languish or, worse, allow others to control them for you.

Why would I want to fit in?

Where music leads, I follow.

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

During my first few weeks in Hollywood, I was told that Jack Warner, the head of the studio, did not believe that a small-breasted woman could become a star.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

Rumor is not always wrong