There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

Haven't my past sermons taught you anyt

Your poetry is lonely. And yet, you write to feel less alone

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I have the most amazing support network around me.

That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

Do things the ego does not like to do.