I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.
I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.
We are all worthy of one another.
At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.
Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.
I've met some of my best friends in the world working for Victoria's Secret.
I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.
A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.