Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.

Having both a pet and a book...absolute heaven.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

You don't have to make any decisions right now, " Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-being, gives you the freedom to live your life, and stretches you to become your best self.

If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.

If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.

Interesting people always have a past.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.