If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.

Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.

Enterprise is better than ease.

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.