There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.