Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.

You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...

I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...

And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.

Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.

How have we lived in the same place for all these years and only just met?Because we weren't meant to meet then. This is our now.

As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.

Country music belongs to America.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.