If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.

...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath’s time, but for the long continuance, the hard candies of femur and stone, the fastnesses.

Survivors of the red pen can overcome the blank paper…

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave!

If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.