Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale

How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

There's no better makeup than confidence

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.