[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.