We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.
Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
For my 'Perfect Chemistry' series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.
Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.
I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
