I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?.

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't ap….

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to….

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentenc….

Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they….

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food..

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences..

How much can a dragon carry? As much as it thinks it can.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.

Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried..

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you….

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and i….

Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes.

That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house..

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader r….