It’s hard to tell sometimes if Etheny’s stories are true, as you will see, so I will lay down the story as she told it to me to allow you to decide for yourself.

You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge.

To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.