We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
“Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.”
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
“The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be".
Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
“I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.”
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
Reality is always so obstructive.
Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
Every ad for every film is exactly the same.
I like audiences to crane their necks.
If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
Dying was apparently a weaning process all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
“I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.”
What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.