Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Give something and Take take something "Love Is Love It Is Not any Selfless service

There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

We are Hollywood. We're entertainment, and that's what the World Wrestling Federation is all about.