“Reading inspires us to dream.”

It’s you who sets your stride!

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Rainy days are just an excuse for pretty umbrellas. Don’t let it slow you down!

A kid can never have too many books!

I always appreciate my name in lights.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

I do believe with all of my heart that life will be good again.

Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.

Since I was a little girl there’s probably only been a handful of days I haven’t had a guitar in my hand at some point, even if only for just a minute.

Everybody needs a pair of six-inch heeled boots in their winter wardrobe.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Hold your head high and look today straight in the eye.

There’s no such thing as too much glitter.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb – and I’m not blonde either.

So long as you got your smile then you’ve got everything you need!

Literature is my Utopia

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

I love comic books. I just do.

I love comic books. I just do.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.