I have a terrible memory.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing." Ranger

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.