Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

[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 gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don’t do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

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