But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.