If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

Well, it's simple to love someone, " she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union.

Sometimes the loudest things in the world are the things you can´t hear at all~

When everything becomes tangled, you should make the choice.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Folks who go through the tabloids ought to have to be lied to.

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.