betsy Byars
“I’m tough. I’m indestructible. I’m like the coyote in ‘Road Runner’ who is always getting flattened and dynamited and crushed and in the next scene is strolling along, completely normal again.”
“When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book!” [The Moon and I: A Memoir]