I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

If life is supposed to be a theater, then somehow, we all met and played our part.

The only place I want to travel to is the United States Of America from 2008 to 2016. Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.