One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.