Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

The best can never stop coming because there are always better ways of being the best.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a religious-heavy upbringing made me interested in goth culture.

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

It may sound cliché, but it really was an honor to be nominated. As an actor, nothing is guaranteed.

Love you more than life itself, more than the sun and the air. You own my soul, Ella May. Micha

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.