When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

I’m alive, ” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

She... tried to ignore what Aeron's presence did to her. What both of them did to her. Especially when they were watching her with barely concealed hunger. ...

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

pain always feels brand new no matter how much experience you've had with it!

That's Becks. Always ready to offer a helping headshot.

I was a very nice boy. I was well-educated ... very Catholic family. So I was very respectful, never late at work. I was always the last one to leave. It's always been that way in my life.

Fans are the best. I'd do whatever for them.