Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.