You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

Deep rivers run quiet.