On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Nothing fails like failure

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.