“I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun.”

“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.”

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”

“we had sex in every position i could imagine, and some i couldn't. we had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. you told me it was the best you'd ever had.”

“Love is the most priceless treasure life affords us”

“Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.”

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on my own. Surely, I thought, I must be the saddest child in the world; that there must be something innately horrid about me to cause my father to cast me off so heartlessly. I believed that if I could discover what it was, there might be a chance of putting things right, of somehow making it up to him.”