Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).