I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders, ' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.

It is better for you to love than hate.

Courage is an act of faith.

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

All those layers of silence upon silence.

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.