Quotes About Author

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

AMAZING GRACE is about the man who wrote "Amazing Grace," John Newton. It's a really great show - I have been workshopping it for a while now, actually.

It's always surprised me that the most successful and really amazing shows are also the happiest environments, and very welcoming.

I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!

Law merely indicated the sickness

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

it is pride that lies awake in the night with its desire and its grief.

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind.

I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as a person.