Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.