To love SHOES is to love PROBLEMS. Every season, STARTING a new collection is my GREATEST CHALLENGE. The blank slate in front of me, starting the process all over again, there is no greater challenge.

I FEAR if I cannot think again, if my MIND SUDDENLY goes BLANK. It will be EMBARRASSING.

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be SOMEWHERE ELSE. No matter how many PEOPLE were out there, it all just felt like a BLANK sheet of PAPER.

I LIVE for the BLANK PAGE.

The truth is, the difference between a STUDIO photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an ABSTRACT PAINTER; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different TALENTS and different desires.

When I first BEGAN WRITING, and I told PEOPLE what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't SURE what young adult literature was. Now everyone KNOWS.

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've GOT, come the next book it's STILL a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like HELL that you've got nothing new to say.

No, I don't autograph BLANK slips, CHECKS, or stickers, and certainly no BOOKS WITHOUT me in them.

When I TURNED 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite MAD, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been UNHAPPY.

You WANT, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so OFTEN, the main character POV is a bit more of a BLANK slate.

I'm ALWAYS SIGNING blank DEEDS. That's how an escrow company WORKS.

What is it about the blank page that makes me WANT to hurl myself into a GAME of solitaire? I ask myself these KINDS of questions while I'm PLAYING solitaire.

I have a huge respect for WRITERS and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the PATIENCE in FRONT of a blank sheet of paper to become a WRITER.

When it comes to my racing career I'm very DRIVEN and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal LIFE. I completely blank people at races. I need to be FOCUSED. I'm RUDE.

For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are TAKING a backseat to their own personality. I don't feel LIKE we're trying to show off their personality as much as let them be a BLANK slate. It's precisely the REASON why I DRESS more musicians than I do actresses.