Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

I'm still writing in my old age. And still loving it. It fills my days. Writing is my salvation. I just get up in the morning, and I'm in this world that I scratch out and begin again and write over - and then suddenly it's lunchtime, and I'm back.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.