Occupation: Author Birth: October 26, 1945 Death: March 4, 2016
There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous..
Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they….
My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood..
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year..
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the ….
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss..
It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endura….
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell..
If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me..
Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fa….
Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have..
One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher..
A story untold could be the one that kills you..
I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her.….
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration..
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better..
The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough..
When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children.
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us..
In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness..