While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

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.