I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica, mnogo vise nego sto treba.

Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

I don't think Metallica sits around all day wondering why country music fans don't embrace them.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

I don't think anyone here supports the legislation. But I'd like to hear you at least say that you don't support spanking by any parent, because you choose not to do it. You must think it's wrong.