Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

Nature compensates for its mistakes.