I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

You must get close to people and then you know who they are.

I'm going to go out Monday through Friday and work hard and try to help this team win, because God knows we need a win.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

[Fireheart]mewed,"It's not my place to judge you." Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on." Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend.

Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.