I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.