I don't know what a natural thought process is.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge f

So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success.

A hermit never lives alone when he has God as a house guest.

She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

I think Apple is a great device company.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.