You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Falling in love is like death... they are both facts

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.