“Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam”

“Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam”

“[...] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write, to understand things at a depth I can reach in no other way, pushes me to write and go on writing, even when my wants—for an easier or more sociable life, or one less exposed and fraught—are certainly well known to my rational mind. p.293”

“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”

“Dad, I'll never do any better. He's smart and funny and good-looking.."Stephanie," he took both my hands, "how could you do any worse?"Best rhetorical question ever.”

“Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!”

“If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.”