I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Be true to what you feel in your heart.

One may sleep as long as one prefers, but one should know that each hour of excess sleep is an hour lost for learning.

I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.