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

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.

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.

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.