I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

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.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

May the hair on your toes never fall out!

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

It's been a long while since we've had a major celebrity criminal case.

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.