Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.
Tom Allen
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find... →
Isabel Allende
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a... →
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old... →
I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home... →
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go... →