If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.

When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!

You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live.

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

I'm having a difficult time killing my parents

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.