The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

After I went to college, I realized that no matter how much I loved sports, I was ready to have fun, and that was right when I started to sing.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

... where there was hunger there would also be bread.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.