“While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me...”

“January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.”

“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”

“Connie, have you been trying to call me?" No Archie. "Well, my phone has not been ringing all day, and I thought it might have been you.”

“In all the years that I have lived, the time that I have spent with you has been the most exquisite... and this moment, our first dance, I will never forget if I live forever.”

“I have loved another with all my heart, and for me that has always been enough.”