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.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

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

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

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.