It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.