Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.