It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.