It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books... to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

A map is not a journey.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.