A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

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 it takes a lot - to write

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

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

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale