I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.