I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

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.

You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.

You can create the life you wish to have.

Don't go around saying, "Oh if only I did so and so then so and so would not have happened!Instead, be thankful it happened.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

The issue isn't what you're struggling with, it's how you deal with what you're struggling with

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I hate the word famous because it has no substance.

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.