How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

Time is ticking, and your online twinkling is limited.

As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are.

It's not your imperfections that make you attractive, it's your honesty about them that does.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?