I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
You're only as good as your last book.
Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.