I Love Telling People What To Read.

The Thing You Can Count On In Life Is That Tennessee Will Always Be Scorching Hot In August.

I Was Starting To Wonder If I Was Ready To Be A Writer, Not Someone Who Won Prizes, Got Published And Was Given The Time And Space To Work, But Someone Who Wrote As A Course Of Life. Maybe Writing Wouldn't Have Any Rewards. Maybe The Salvation I Would Gain Through Work Would Only Be Emotional And Intellectual. Wouldn't That Be Enough, To Be A Waitress Who Found An Hour Or Two Hidden In Every Day To Write?

I Don't Want To Stand With Somebody's Praise.

When You Get Divorced And Remarried, Nobody Gets Discarded. Everybody Is Still There. Even If Their Storyline Is Not Directly Yours.

I Will Go And Speak At Rotary Clubs. I Will Go And Speak At Schools. I'm So Much In The Community, But In A Way That I Love. It's Been Such A Positive Thing.