Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

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.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

Treat your fiends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace.