My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

Who would you be but who you are?

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present