That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

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.

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

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.

Whenever you find someone full of hate, purify him with forgiveness, bliss and love.

There is always a spark before a drive. Don’t expect any miracle to occur in your life if you won’t avail yourself to be sparked by the Holy Spirit of God!

Horror can damage your brain" - HAHAHAHA the best joke ever heard (It was said by GreenHollyWood". I really don't believe in that in case I use them to relax!

It is not about giving her the world, it is all about making her realize that she is the only one in it.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

The future belongs to the competent

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

I don't understand at best, I cannot speak for all the rest. But you may find a lifetime's passed you by. Every dog has its day, every day has its way Of being forgotten.

I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.

When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.