Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.