What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

I believe that the ‘love of your life’ is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they’re it.

In a real love, mistakes are not consider because they are forgiven and forgotten.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'

Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.