I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.
I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.
A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.
The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
People think that I'm very serious.
I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over.
My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.
Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!
Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
No, the czar did not want us in the schools.
Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
I do think one should have clean feet.
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.
The Russians are a very sentimental people.
My apartment looks like no one lives in it.
