I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

If you build it well, a satisfaction comesAn honor to say I built that with fidelity, Purpose, value and integrity

I see that I must give what I most need.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist