in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

Success is the relentless pursuit of joy.

It’s sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don’t have to ever deal with the true pain below

An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

It's interesting to watch where music is going next. Isn't it always rotating? It is so weird how disposable pop music is, even mine. It just goes by so fast.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

You're never without hope, because you're never without prayer.

Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .