"I write for myself things that I've..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything.”

“I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.”

“You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.”

“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”

“Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.”

“I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.”

“If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.”

“To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”