It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.

In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

At first, I was lost in you, but now you're lost on me.

All is fair in fashion and war.

Your dreams of today will create your future.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

I had only two jobs my entire life Taco Bell for six months and Kroger's Food store for one day!

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.