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.

The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.