Doug Cottrell's Copious Projects is a holder for 5 sub-companies. Amiable Products, Heart's Desire Enterprises, Wildfire Productions, Lyon Legal Services.

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.

If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.