I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Some of you with the way you running right now, the way you working, you will be extinct.

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don't let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live.

I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

A big question that we have is that we do not understand why the comfort of the few should override the comfort of the many.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.