It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

You should get a better boyfriend. One with an IQ higher than a turnip.

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

To quit taking risks is a serious risk!

Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them.

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

Things happen and you live and you learn.

I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?