“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”

“Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.”

“You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.”

“It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112”

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

“I wouldn’t claim to have mastered my craft, part of the fun is that you are continually learning and reinventing yourself.”

“No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

“You are writing for yourself.”

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”