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

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

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.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

What a mess you’ve made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

Your eight is someone's infinity.

If you don't allow freedom, then you can't have freedom.

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.