We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

He's got a great sense of humor for a guy who never says anything.

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.

Nora Roberts is cool.

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them