For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.

I suspected you were tired of looking for things you should have found a long time ago. ~ Jared

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

People can't relate to someone who only talks about their successes.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!