Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Success depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash and where previously the brain held a dead fact the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather when women are empowered when they can speak from the experience of their own lives they often address different previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

As I mentioned previously the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father meeting my husband and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26 which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.