It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
I used to be a conservative.
I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.
Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.
I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.
Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. . . . All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.