If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.
My life is not just about the past.
She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.
All seasons have something to offer
Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.
We're stronger than we realize.
Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.
When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.
I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.
Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.
You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
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