What Is Important Is Not

Write Every Day Even If It Is Just A Paragraph.

I've Sold 11 Of My Books To Hollywood. There Are All Kinds Of My Books On Shelves In Hollywood Because The Scripts Didn't Capture The Characters.

When I Am So Intensely Involved With Writing My Books I Don't Like To Reread Them.

I Think There'd Be Huge Losses If There Weren't Newspapers. I Know Everything's Shifting To The Internet And Some People Would Say, 'news Is News, What You're Talking About Is A Change Of Consumption, Not The Product That's Out There.' But I Think There Is A Change.

There Is No End Of Things In The Heart. ...she Understood It To Mean That If You Took Something To Heart, Really Brought It Inside Those Red Velvet Folds, Then It Would Always Be There For You. No Matter What Happened, It Would Be There Waiting. She Said This Could Mean A Person, A Place, A Dream. A Mission. Anything Sacred. She Told Me That It Is All Connected In Those Secret Folds. Always. It Is All Part Of The Same And Will Always Be There, Carrying The Same Beat As Your Heart.