No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

If you understand the desire of a blooming flower, you will be able to understand the meaning of life.

A man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

I'm neither extrovert nor introvert. I'm just an imperfect example of an ambivert.

I have learned that love is often strongest where it is most threatened. Where it is most terrorised is where it most profusely grows.Lillian WhiteI Would Send You Poppies

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

It's fun because I really do love meeting new people. Comedy can be so different from show to show and from writer to writer and actor to actor. People don't set out to make a bad show.

Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.