The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.

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.

No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Move over just a bit to the right of me, For I cannot see Where the booty is.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

They say that even a hateful connection is still binding.

Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.