Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

The woman is the reflection of her man

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process.

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.