“There’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.”

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time.

And if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

No matter how large a horse’s ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated.

The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me.

And then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.

On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed.

I even love the smell of books.

For a woman, love is the highest dream.

They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me.

All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words.

Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house.

You put deadlines on people you really don’t want, because that’s how you feel about them.

I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.

In journalism, if there’s a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you’ve got a 4 p.m. deadline.

With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.