Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

My backside and my privates. I’m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

The years in captivity fuels character development

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.

Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.

The wages of Gin is Debt.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.