Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.

You have to believe in it to get it.

He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.