Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.
The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced. . . Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist
I believe that only poetry counts. . . A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.
There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were. . . what was the word. . . deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.
I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.