Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

She wore her scarsas her best attire.A stunning dressmade of hellfire.

Without God’s help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

It's not pressure. It's responsibility We put it on ourselves.

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Noble spirits are heterodox.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.