A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.