When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?

In the dark, everything is scary

Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s.

Be thankful that you are on your feet, for there are people who can't even walk down the street. - RVM.

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.