Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.