Beth

“Don't worry about offending people. Any time you write something thought provoking, some idiots will complain, because they hate it when you make them think.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance

“Far and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise—is the reader. . . . The reader is, in fact, the writer’s only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. . . . It is, of course, the writer’s job to reach out and grab this reader: If he is a reader who cannot endure a love story, it is the writer’s job, no more and no less, to make him read a love story and like it. Using any device that might possibly work, the writer has to snare the reader’s attention and keep it.”
― Shirley Jackson

“It is best, in fact, to assume that every verbal illustration you write will offend someone, somewhere, at some point.”
― Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

“Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many." -Mark Twain”
― Anne Freeman, The Art of Aging Gracefully: A Comprehensive Guide To Self-Care for Women 60 and Beyond