Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

True understanding lies beyond the desert

Your ambition is the most reliable alarm clock.

I seem to be drawn to the really romantic songs.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.