As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

Alone on the summit of Mount Everest.

Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now... it’s like quitting before you start.

No one should give up a dream without giving it a chance to come true.

Remember, the most important thing in the world is to have a man who loves you.

Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends – there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.

Helen Lawson: The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that’s ME, baby, remember?

The second draft is on yellow paper, that’s when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that’s where I cut, cut, cut.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I’d been thinking about it a long time.

A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it’s there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.