Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

Sometimes You Need To Do The Wrong Thing For The Right Reason.

It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says—we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

I don't got that kind of money man, commercials only pay so much (inaudible).

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.