It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.

I play with the fire of my own truth, " she told me, "I will burn for the things I love.

There are varieties of life unknown to you.Their whole identity is: you can't find out.

Water flows because it's willing.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.

[Kim Kardashian] is one of the hardest-working women I've been around ever.

First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.