Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.
They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.
I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme. " "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you. " "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.
If you look at the parts I've played and the movies I've done. . . I mean you have to work with the stereotype. The stereotype gets you paid, it gets you in the business. If they're looking for a white housewife, they're going to go for Joan Cusack.
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.