She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.