...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

I am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!

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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.