you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig..

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer..

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you..

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literatur….

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one..

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it..

A very good editor is almost a collaborator..

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescu….

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energeti….

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back..

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you..

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote..

I could fall for you in a heartbeat.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun..

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic su….

She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here.….

I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain ….

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next..

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose..

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef..

Ethel said: "Lloyd, there's someone here you may remember-" Daisy could not restrain herself. She ran to Lloyd and threw herself into his arms. She h….