“Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant – or a miracle of understatement”

When folks find I ain’t afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I’m tellin’ the truth about my own.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

I travel so much on stories, so I don’t take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.

I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you’re bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it’s going to make you miserable?

I think it’s a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don’t know how it could have been done any better.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.