First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.