“Trust one who has tried.”— Virgil Related Quotes “One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop.”— Chloe Thurlow “Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.”— Hilary Mantel “I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.”— Reba McEntire