“It may not be written in any book, but it is written—You can’t go back,you can’t repeat the unrepeatable.”

“I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.”

“I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.”

“You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.”

“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”

“Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old material you can’t write new material, and you must remember all you’ve written and read, so you are not duplicating already existing writing.”