There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing world take a chance on you? I don't believe that you need an MFA to be a writer, but I do think you need to take some good workshops.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.