“Writers don’t need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.”

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

I’m not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it’s a big difference.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.

Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can’t thank God and the industry enough.

So we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.