Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.