Fiction is very, very important, " he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction.

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.

Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that any human being would like.

Why isn’t the word “phonetically” spelled with an “f”?

The Holy Spirit connecting with your spirit will begin to induce and stimulate your spirit to reveal to you all that the Lord has put in you

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.