... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why, 'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

The crime series, books and other types of works have in one in mind... and that's learning.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much ofwhat I love in that face.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

I consider every step towards doing what you love an achievement.

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

Eaten bread is forgotten.