That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

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

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

Only the nonreader fears books.