I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

From personal adversity comes great art

The right way is the hard way.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit

I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again?

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.