This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

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.

Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real.

Silence and creativity are very close friends!

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Whatever you consistently think about and focus upon you move toward.