Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

I read.. because one life is not enough

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.