I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

Little children are all writers.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

When you follow the right steps you will never get lost.

If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.

In general, I like the healthy stuff and don't really have a problem with any of it.

If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization, the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you.

Everybody at Barcelona loves Messi. They can't speak highly of him.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.