I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.