My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone..

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heav….

What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can't prostitute me..

It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book..

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. ….

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother..

Actually, the books were never a planned career path..

Dawn Steel was the person who told me I could never wear shoes like this! She and Nora Ephron told me 'you can't wear those crappy shoes, nobody woul….

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurat….

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..

Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a l….

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind of….

You find out what's in you when it comes out.

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of pa….

I'm very competitive..

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend..

The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that -- No, No! What makes it….

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book..

What is good for society is also good for business..

Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it in a play, a sort of sci-fi play about mora….

The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should k….