You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

.. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up." Collin

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.