Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.