The system isn't working for most people and never has worked for most women.

Take on jobs, projects and challenges that frighten you. It's the best way to get rid of fear.

We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.

I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.

I wish you could be kissed, Jane, ” he said. “Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.” He flailed an arm toward the stars.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Death keepes no Calender.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

I'm obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don't cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke.

There's a beauty on the inside of you - and it shows on the outside too.

He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.