If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones.
I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other. " "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.