Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

I'm my characters' galley slave.

London is yours. If you want it.

Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.

Sometimes you don't need to change what you're looking at only get a better view.

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Either way, we'll ride out together. That's how it is with soul mates. Thats just what they do.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

I am always a big believer that if you work hard enough and you work out of passion, a person can do anything.

I am a thorn in the side of designers.