In 'The White PRINCESS,' the WOMEN are leading the STORY, and they're holding EVERYTHING together. It's DEFINITELY a world of women's empowerment.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't CONSIDER for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was NEVER a SEXUAL person.

The more often we see the THINGS around US - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the BIRDS, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them LESS and less.

I've ALWAYS BELIEVED that one woman's SUCCESS can only help another woman's success.

I profoundly do not BELIEVE that the United States could MAKE things better in Syria by being there. And we have an evidentiary record of what HAPPENS when we're there - nearly a decade in IRAQ.

I have the NORMAL complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and WHATEVER ELSE - but I'm absolutely NOTHING special.

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't COME to you - you have to GO LOOKING for them. The OLD men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a HARD consonant, or by concentrating for a MOMENT, BREATHING softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was GORGEOUS, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an ABSOLUTE nightmare.

I don't THINK any good book is based on factual experience. BAD BOOKS are about THINGS the WRITER already knew before he wrote them.