Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.

He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

This boy needs a dog.What makes you say that?He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

Divorce is just about change, you know. It's God saying, You need a change. And I'm going to make it so your bank account only has change.

I know who likes football likes me

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

It takes all sorts (to make a world

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.