Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.

I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.

If you find something greater than yourself, to move you! Then you will make every single dream, become a reality!

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.