Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.