Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Brastias. My friend.” Uh-oh, this couldn’t be good. “Do you lie to me?”“Uh . . . no.”“See? That’s a lie!

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!