“Brooding is more something I do when I'm working. I know so much more about sitting around worrying about a work project than I do about worrying about kids. This could just be a fact of life for o...”

“My job as a writer is simple. Write a book Im proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.Thats the nature of art.”

“My job as a writer is simple.Write a book Im proud of,and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.Thats the nature of art.”

“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book”

“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”