If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

If the truth is inside, And the form is outside, What is the truth of sleep?

Your powers of observation are formidable, " Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

The more you learn, the more you will be able to see, feel, love, enjoy, and understand.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

You gotsta love all God's children!

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.