I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

A map is not a journey.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own Dynasty range, named after various characters. I find this saves a ton of time - as well as my own hair.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.