Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand.""Of course you don't, " said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

The sky is never falling...things will work out, they ALWAYS work out. Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

If many people love me, then I must be important.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

Heath," she whispered, "you're all I want. No one else ... no one . . .

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.