“What’s the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.”                                                                                               – Dorothy Allison

“Isaac gave good advice to authors. . . . [H]e sent me his two laws of writing: 1. Thou shall finish what thou startest. 2. Thou shalt not judge thyself.”                                                                                                              – Janet Jeppson Asimov,
                                    _Notes for a Memoir on Isaac Asimov, Life, and Writing_

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” – Jerry Seinfeld

“The important thing [in writing memoir], is not the life, but the meaning extracted from it.” – Ellen Boneparth