Journalists in newspapers and in many magazines are not permitted to be subjective and tell their readers what they think. Journalists have got to follow a very strict formulaic line, and here we come, these non-fiction writers, these former journalists who are using all the techniques that journalists are pretty much not allowed to use.

I'm a mellow fellow. Nothing much bothers me.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Time seems to slow down after the winter holiday. New York loses all of its winter romance and is just cold.

I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.

I'm very low-key.

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Millions of followers doesn't equal millions of dollars.

I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

I have always been slow to sign films, ever since my debut.

Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.

I like to keep a low profile.

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful.

I used to sleep with a little Ganesha under my pillow as a child; he was my favourite deity.

The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell.

Yellowstone wildlife is treasured. We understand that. We'll manage them in a way that addresses that sensitivity.