Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.

I think that, for sure, we as women should try and realize that it's more about having someone to share.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

I have given my all Catch me catch me I think I'm gonna fall

I hear the criticism loud & clear That is how I know that the time is near

I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions.