My Grandmother Influenced Me So Deeply.

I Learned Not To Be So Bitterly Defeated When My Fiction Took A Beating From Editors. I Learned In Advertising To Color In The Lines And Have My Work Done On Time And To Make It The Very Best It Could Be.

I've Put Everything I Had And I've Given My Readers 120 Percent, And That's The Truth.

When The Trees And The Power Lines Crashed Around You, When The Very Roof Gave Way Above You, When The Light Turned To Darkness And Water Turned To Dust, Did You Call On Him? When You Called On Him, Was He Somewhere Up There, Or Was He As Near As Your Very Breath?

Let Me Say That I Absolutely Loved Writing 'a Common Life,' Because It Was A Book About Love.

I Made Real Sacrifices And Took Big Risks. But Living, It Seems To Me, Is Largely About Risk.