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I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
I measured my success by how many clients I had and how many billable hours I had.
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past.
For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.
It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.
There is no inherent contradiction between being right-wing and being intelligent.
The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.
The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.
I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.
I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.
For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.
Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.
I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.
In movies, you just see somebody close their eyes, and you go on to the next scene.
Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen.
I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness.
I was working at 'New Girl' when I found out there was going to be a 'Pitch' sequel.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.