Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale

How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits