The book belongs to the author.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused.

You can only be as confident as your repeated interpretations of your self-worth.

I don't believe on them…but I am positive they exist.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

A good product can last forever.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.