Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.