I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.
In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.
There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.
There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake. . . Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.
You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.