I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.

Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

You were a kidnapping waiting to happen - you're lucky it was me.""Luckiest day of my life.

The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like.

Corn is the only food you hold like corn.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.