I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.

My country can never be taken away from me now

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he is master of the world.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys.