I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety.