I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.