I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to i….

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late..

Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a ….

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning..

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them..

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning..

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing..

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten..

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten..

It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. W….

A map is not a journey..

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off ….