I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

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

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.