Every accepted public quote

“I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.”

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.”

“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.”

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”

“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”

“I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays...”

“What if a villain exists in all of us?”

“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.”

“Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'”

“Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.”

“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentim...”

“And perhaps that was the test of faith, to know, and not to say, to live with knowing, and let the truth live only in one's head.”

“For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.”

“If we learn to cross them properly, the rivers that we cry can lead us to oceans of invincible happiness.”

“The score never interested me, only the game.”

“Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.”

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.”

“I'd like to encourage young adults to love themselves and others more.”

“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck i...”

“We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and w...”

“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”

“The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.”

“You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as...”

“It's critical that you are aware of your thought patterns throughout the day. That's a determining factor of your success.”

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

“The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.”

“When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.”

“Dying is like the ocean, sometimes the tide comes in gently with soft, delicate waves quietly working in the background. Other days, the waves violently crash into explosions, demanding to b...”

“Life is like a box of chocolates.”

“It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.”

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”

“I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.”

“It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret...”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

“She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.”

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

“If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.”

“I haven't really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I'm too busy and - not in a bad way - don't want to waste my time.”

“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”

“The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.”

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”

“Time is made for dying in a thousand ways, so why be afraid of dying when a kind of dying could come all the time? Live every day like you're terminal. Because you are. Live every day like y...”

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”