There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.

And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.