I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing 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.

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

Animosity killed the elephant.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.