My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

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 he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Maybe I am the eye candy on the team, but the only mouth I plan on melting in is hers.

You're not a nuthatch, Laurie.""Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy.

A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.