The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.

Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, " Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Right path will not always look like a right path

Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.