Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

sooner or later I do what I want to do.