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.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

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

I started writing stories as a child.

That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.