If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.

You only get one life.Too bad you already made a mess of it.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.

Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

I just want to this about that.

But Death was cunning.

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.

I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed.

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.