If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.