We cannot work for others without working for ourselves..

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over..

When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You….

I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on t….

Words are a lens to focus one's mind..

To me, love has always meant friendship..

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to ….

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny..

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you..

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself..

A good poem about failure is a success..

With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not toward anything. The mind floats. Then….

We Learn about love by loving..

I love writing family stories..

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about i….

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software..

For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and also the compulsions ….

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it..

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends..

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people ….

My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interes….