I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

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

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

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.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.