"I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability."

“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.”

Source : "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

“Just give him the medicine!" I scream at her. "Give it to him! Who are you, anyway, to decide how much pain he can stand!”

“A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.”

“With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode God near, he sang, it was our last ride over the hurdled humans. They cowered when they heard us overhead, they wrote, they lied our neighing into one of their image-ridden languages.”

“War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.”

“Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.”

Source : Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.21, Random House

“And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?”

“Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt”