The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.

It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives—and yet not repent.

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

Human dignity should be without borders.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Between the truth and the faith, we must always choose the first one.

I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.