Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.