Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

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

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have a reason for doing what he's doing, and it's not anything I can imagine myself wanting to do, things get a little more difficult to write, and careless mistakes are made.

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

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.