To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

You have got to control your fear, get in control of your emotions.

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

Success is beautiful and dangerous.