Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back," he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.