I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

His heart was simply to big for his body.

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.

Black people have been working hard for decades.

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that.