There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.
You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place – police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.
Life is like a novel. It’s filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
Being poor is only romantic in books.
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.
I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power – their femininity, because men can’t do without it.
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
When people tell me I’ve kept them up all night, I feel like I’ve succeeded.
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.
There’s this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
I’m sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I’ve been there to personally research it.