Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.

Apology means nothing without change, you have to follow it up with action.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .