The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.