A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.