I Am Not A Perfect Friend, And

My Mother Had Died When I Wrote My First Book. I Was Twenty-seven, So It Was Right At The Beginning Of My Writing Life. I Don't Know If She Had Lived, If I Would Have Done It, Certainly Not Quite Like I Did. But, You Can't Rethink It. You Wrote What You Wrote, It Meant Something To Other People, And That's Your Good.

I Think Our Material Is Our Lives. That's Part Of Being A Modern Writer, And We Have To Use It.

Some People Who Think They Are In Unhappy Marriages Are Just In Unhappy Bodies.

A Woman Whose Smile Is Open And Whose Expression Is Glad Has A Kind Of Beauty No Matter What She Wears.

It Is Hard To Hold On To Friendships When People Move Away To Another State Or To Another World.