don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.