It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.