who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

The past is never where you think you left it.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.