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

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

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

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.