If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.