Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

You will never know your limits unless you push yourself to them.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world who are probably not so sure themselves.

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.

Feminism means something legislation cultural change but Girl Power meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

Dreams are our only geography - our native land.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.

I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

Our loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture.

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Confused by thoughts we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas the enlightened see the one Reality.

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