The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

No mother should lose her child.

We can all rise to a higher divine-self with encouragement.

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

Somebody once told me if you're doing what you're supposed to you don't have to force it.

The truth can set us free, but only if we're always in the process of discovering it.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

We sent out 3,000 Valentines to the ladies, asking them to be my voter.