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

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

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.

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.

Failure is falling up!

Fix was starting to see that this was the way life worked once you got older and the kids came

In life, you will find two things. The quiet beauty of Darkness, and the bright songs of Light. The choice is yours to decide which will be you, and which will be your shadow.

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

I just always felt like animals are spirit guides. I really like animals, I've always felt really drawn to them; they have this energy and magnetism.

A screaming comes across the sky.