No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Everything worth doing involves risk.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

Wait until you see him up on a horse

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead.Home.

What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.

Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

It's early in the morning and your competition is still sleeping.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.