That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

There is more than one way to burn a book.

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.