The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.

Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.

It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!