Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

Set aside even one day just for fun, and you will improve the next seven.

Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.

I would pay snakes to bite her.

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

Actresses generally arent allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isnt considered as versatile.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment