Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.