“I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not joi...” — Mary Garden Quote

“I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.”

“My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.”

“A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.”

“The common stereotype of the Middle Eastern, Muslim-born terrorist is not just lazy and inaccurate but easy fodder for the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam far right.”

“'Eastern Promises' is great.”

“Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.”