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“I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,”
Source : "Jacqueline Woodson On Being A 'Brown Girl' Who Dreams". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 18, 2014. 
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“Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change.”
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“If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.”
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“To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.”
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“Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.”
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“Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.”
Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (2007). “House Next Door”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
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“The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.”
Source : "Under the skin" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.
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“After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.”
