My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

Nothing else exists when art does.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough

The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the moon. He was the author of the fate that could make the mountains move.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system

I would never date or marry an actress. I will marry the girl of my mom's choice.

The heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.