The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!

One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress.

I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself.

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

Though 'Moneyball' had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

As soon as you give your heart to something new you will immediately be able to think in a way that is new.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

I'm absolutely loving being part of Bondiana, and that not only am I a Bond girl, but I get to be an agent as well.

As we all know, reality has a liberal bias.

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.