The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale

How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!

I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen.""I think you may be."I smiled dubiously. "Thank you.""It is not meant as a compliment. Hazard makes you elect. You cannot elect yourself.

Believe in yourself, for the universe believes in you.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.

Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.