If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

Find the joy and peace in and around you. It is a choice not a condition or destination.

The living limit is not ascertained by wealth one has

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do.

You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.