One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William WordsworthBeing an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

Live the Life you'd be envious of if you saw someone else living it.

I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die...

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?