The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.