He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Love is the divine light that melts away all blockages. Love heals our beings

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

It's a very remarkable story.""Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

Better an unsung hero than a fallen star.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

Instead of plastic surgery, I'd rather have a height enhancement surgery.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.