"[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time."

“I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.”

“The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.”

“She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.”

“I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'”

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”

“I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

“Every shuttle mission's been successful.”