Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

I remember things the way they should have been.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.