What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
I enjoy horse riding, spending time with my dog 'Smurf,' and basically having a really good laugh partying and having fun!
I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.
When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.
I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.
But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
