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.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!