Writing Quotes

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

I beg my heart to ask- why not me? A woman and a leader. A writer and a healer.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me.

I write to feel closer to you.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.