If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.

Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.