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….

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for peopl….

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'..

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out..

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be….

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another,….

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men..

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction..

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us..

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she w….

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too..

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?.

Culture clash is terrific drama..

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine..

We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fo….

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing..

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.".

Most of my stories have some basis in fact..

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words..

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness..