“Taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.”

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,

I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things.

Some artists never see their work in front of an audience.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

With full knowledge that the person you married has agreed.

We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap.

I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

And I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses – and that if my readers could feel.

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment.

One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

I am in total silence when I write.

You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

I can only draw what I see.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

Worship isn’t an event to attend & watch. It’s a lifestyle to be lived.

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.

I see you try to hurt me bad. Don’t know what you’re up against. Maybe you should reconsider; come up with another plan. Cause you know I’m not that kinda girl. I’ll just get back up again.

When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something.