Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

A map is not a journey.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.

Why are you wearing that negligee? Sure makes it hard to walk away.

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?

In short, industrialism is over.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.