I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.