If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.

Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

Today it happen this, tomorrow who knows what will happen??

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars