"I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle."

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.”

“Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.”

“Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.”

Source : Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

“Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.”

“I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.”

“It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.”