Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art and of creating and let my gallery take care of the more commercial aspects.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.