None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

Donald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, "serious voter fraud" - Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states.

Constant dropping wears away stones

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

I paid my bill. Let me speak to your supervisor!