The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

bitter is a bad way to live!

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

I do not want to carry any public position.

Roads are the blood vessels of the economy.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.