Author Quotes

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.