If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
I didn't mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.