A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.

Having both a pet and a book...absolute heaven.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

You don't have to make any decisions right now, " Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

With the rise of self- awareness, all separatisms cease to exist - all delusions cease to exist.

Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.

We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it

New socialize by insulting each other, but don't really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don't really mean it

People love the chaos in my brain, but I'm terrified of it.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.